THE Edo State’s Labour Party (LP) has suspended its national chairman, Julius Abure.
This comes after the party’s state executive ratified Abure’s membership suspension from Arue, Ward 3, Esan North-East Local Government Area, as stated in a letter dated May 14, 2024, issued to Abure.
In a press conference in Benin City, the Edo State capital, yesterday night, the LP Esan North East LG Chairman, Patrick Onogbenin, revealed that on May 14th, he received a letter from the Ward 3 Chairman, Thompson Ehiguese, detailing Abure’s suspension from Arue Ward 3, Esan North East Local Government Area.
According to Onogbenin, he then discussed the problems highlighted with other members of the party’s leadership in the local government and, after concluding that the reasons for the suspension were compelling enough, wrote to the state executive requesting ratification of the suspension.
Kelly Ogbaloi, the state chairman of the Labour Party, who received and read the two letters, stated that given the contents of the letters and the reasons for the suspension, the state executive had no choice but to ratify the suspension, which had already been ratified and upheld at the local government level.
“The state executive council is extremely reluctant to ordinarily adopt this kind of situation but I must tell you that tonight we are very constrained and have no options whatsoever at our disposal to refuse this presentation.
“This is more so when it is indeed coming from the very ward where barrister Julius Abure originates. We therefore find no iota of evidence that has the capacity to prohibit us from agreeing to ratify the suspension
“On behalf of the state executive committee we have the suspension ratified. Please take notice that you have been suspended from the membership of Ward 3, Arue, Uromi, Esan North-East Local Government, Edo State.
“This decision was reached after a rigorous deliberation by members of the ward in consideration of your high-handedness, antiparty activities in the administration of the party and other myriads of allegations of fraud levelled against you which are currently under investigation.”
